Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan

Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan (25 January 1948-) was Prime Minister of Thailand from 7 to 22 May 2014, succeeding Yingluck Shinawatra and preceding Prayut Chan-o-cha. He was a member of the Pheu Thai Party.

Biography
Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1948, and he was a close business associate of Thaksin Shinawatra as a media businessman before joining his Pheu Thai Party. He directed a rice pledging scheme in which the government bought rice at inflated prices from farmers, but let it rot due to a lack of buyers. In 2014, he was appointed to succeed Yingluck Shinawatra as acting Prime Minister after she was deposed, but Niwatthamrong was himself ousted by the military under Prayut Chan-o-cha.